"Progressives" don't have a program for national renewal, but one for redistribution for past grievances; rewards for cronies. Their essentially socialist schemes have never worked. Their desire for open borders would strain our welfare, obliterating any vestiges of traditional American culture.

Instead of a federal Leviathan regulating every aspect of national life, increasing taxes, and redistributing resources to favored cronies and causes, Trump offered deregulation, lowered taxes, and increased economic and social freedom for all.

The left’s defeat on Kavanaugh might signal the beginning of the end of character assassination instead of policy advocacy as political means. And, if Justice Kavanaugh himself can serve as an example, we might even enter an era where, once again, virtue signaling could be replaced by actual virtue.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s colleagues, friends, and schoolmates have all attested to his character and his veracity. He is obviously the best-qualified candidate for the court in our lifetime. Yet he and his family have been vilified. Our politics should be better than this.

The “intergalactic freak show” of the Democrats' opposition to the appointment of the eminently well-qualified Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is profoundly depressing for those of us who believe that the Supreme Court ought to be above politics.

The outrage of those who find their power and influence reduced and their ill-gotten gains diminishing is understandable, but the program this president has undertaken, inclusive of his judicial appointments, are laudable and must be allowed a chance to succeed.

The Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, the ending of the fabricated fantasy of Trumpian Russian collusion underlying the Mueller probe, and, most of all, the upcoming midterm elections should demonstrate what kind of a country we still are.